IN AN OTHERWISE EMPTY ROOM A 35MM SLIDE MADE FROM A COMPOSITE OF 48 HIGH RESOLUTION DIGITAL IMAGES TAKEN FROM THE HUBBLE TELESCOPE OF THE CARINA NEBULA (ISSUED IN HONOR OF THE TELESCOPE’S 17TH ANNIVERSARY) IS PROJECTED THROUGH AN ANTIQUE MAGIC LANTERN.

the distance from you to me...and when I say you, I mean you then, I don’t know you now...and when I say me, I mean me now, I don’t know me then

the distance from you,there,then,plus the distance to me,here,now...

makes for an easier examination of then...now...and consequently now...now...

Now then...that brings us to contemporary contemplations on contemporaneityor all the same: originsour origins are origins themselves:the causes that were in operation before this itself was brought into being

then our histories are now one composite historyin the inception and creation of then to nowthe collapsing of time and space that IS seeking one’s originsit’s fucking confusingtotal confusion

yet it’s bigger and it’s smaller than all of that

it’s neither a macrocosm nor microcosmjust a -cosma combining formand it’s as close to enlightenment as I’ll ever findthat spacethat space abovethat’s the space where I’m coming fromsame as, opposite of, and adjacent to, the one that you respectively then, now, and always inhabit